The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands was founded in 2004 by a group of queer Australians. Its flag was the rainbow flag, its currency the Pink Dollar, and its national anthem Gloria Gaynor’s I am what I am.
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[Images: The Kingdom’s emperor Dale Parker Anderson stands beside a rainbow flag; a plaque reading: “The Gay Kingdom: On the 14th day of June 2004 at this, the highest point in the Coral Sea, Emperor Dale Parker Anderson raised the gay rainbow flag and claimed the Islands of the Coral Sea in his name as a homeland for the gay and lesbian people of the world. God Save our King!”; A sign on a beach which reads “Welcome to Heaven, Cato Island Post Code 0000, Capital of the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom, www.gayandlesbiankingdom.com” draped with a rainbow flag, next to a post box labelled “Royal Gay Mail”]
Really happy to see this at my local library
i really like the clicking winding robot mechanical sounds the dca makes if there was a video of just that sound i would replay it over and over and over
I think a big reason why "children are an oppressed group" gets (wrongly!) read as a "pedophile talking point" is that everyone treats children so terribly that actual child molesters can speedrun winning a kid's trust by like, actually respecting their needs and perspective, at least at first. Which means that the only way out of this mess is for all of us adults to treat children with respect, so that abusers can't use the rareness of that respect as a weapon.
it's honestly nuts to me that critical infrastructure literally everywhere went down because everyone is dependent on windows and instead of questioning whether we should be letting one single company handle literally the vast majority of global technological infrastructure, we're pointing and laughing at a subcontracted company for pushing a bad update and potentially ruining themselves
like yall linux has been here for decades. it's stable. the bank I used to work for is having zero outage on their critical systems because they had the foresight to migrate away from windows-only infrastructure years ago whereas some other institutions literally cannot process debit card transactions right now.
global windows dependence is a massive risk and this WILL happen again if something isn't done to address it. one company should not be able to brick our global infrastructure.
Did you know that the FNAF character page for Moon describes his silly little dances as "psychological abuse" because
OH GOD IT'S SO HORRIFYING I CAN'T TAKE IT
I have not drawn these guys in weeks I miss them